Daily Times

Another development in the fake accounts case has popped up in the form of another benami account. National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Karachi had, on Tuesday, summoned a worker of Lahore factory in the investigation against Agha Siraj Durrani and others.

Ali Ahsan, a resident of Ferozwala and a worker at a chemical factory in Lahore, has been summoned on April 24 for interrogation over five million rupees deposited in an account in his name.

Ahsan, however, denied holding a bank account and expressed ignorance over the deposited money.

He said that he receives a meagre amount in the form of salary from the chemical factory. “I don’t know, how the money landed in the account,” he remarked.

According to NAB Karachi, an amount of one million rupees was withdrawn five times from the account in his name.

The scandal had recently emerged, in which former president Asif Ali Zardari; his sister, Faryal Talpur and others faced charges of laundering over Rs 35 billion through fake bank accounts.

The bureau’s investigation against Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani highlighted the money laundering scam from another angle when fake bank accounts were included in the probe.